December 26, 2008 | Digital Devices

eWeek is reporting that notebook sales have passed desktop sales for the first time. In the last quarter of 2008, 38.6 million units of notebooks shipped compared to 38.5 million desktops.

One of the problems with mobile computers, though, is they’re easy pickings for theft, which has reached a hundred thousand per year for notebooks.

The story is here. It’s being discussed on Slashdot here:

Slashdot | Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales

I think one benefit of the laptop craze may be that companies will stop putting out newer versions of software which require double the specs of the last version.

While the idea of a small notebook for mobility’s sake is appealing to me, I don’t really like the idea of having a notebook as a desktop replacement. For people who use their computer a lot, including typing a lot, being crouched over a laptop keeping your neck craned downwards while typing on a small, probably un-ergonomic keyboard doesn’t sound appealing.

As well, as pointed out in the comments at Slashdot, parts that you can’t replace on a portable include:

• case and panels
• keyboard
• touchpad
• LCD
• CD/DVD
• battery
• power adaptor
• motherboard

To each his own, though.

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9 Responses to “Notebook Computer Sales Overtake Desktop Sales”

1. Keely Pavlides says:

   December 29, 2009 at 11:23 am

   I was looking for something smaller, lighter, and faster to use to access email while traveling, and a notebook fits the bill perfectly. I was using a 17 inch laptop with Vista which was a disaster. Slow to boot, and took forever to access programs. This baby has an XP operating system, boots up quickly, and runs at a nice speed. I read some of the reviews where they added memory to improve performance, but I thought I would try it out of the box before making any changes. So far, I see no need to add memory. The spped seems fine- as fast as my home desktop pc, and light years better than my Vista laptop. I would also recommend getting the 6 cell battery- it doesn’t seem to add much weight or bulk, and you get double the computing time between charges. Obviously, this is not a heavy duty computer, but for email access and light computing while traveling, it works just fine.
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